Think before you speak, Nurul Izzah tells Najib

Asila Jalil Asila Jalil Updated 8 years ago · Published on 18 Aug 2017 12:23PM · 1 Comments

PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar has told Prime Minister Najib Razak to do his homework on the Reformasi agenda before declaring the movement dead. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Seth Akmal, August 18, 2017.

PRIME Minister Najib Razak should do his homework before making statements like the Reformasi agenda is dead, said PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar.

Nurul was responding to the prime minister and Barisan Nasional chairman who yesterday visited Permatang Pauh in Penang, the stronghold of jailed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.

Najib had said the Reformasi agenda was no more as the opposition was being led by a “dictator”, referring to Pakatan Harapan (PH) chairman Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who was prime minister when the movement started in the late 1990s.

“We did not start Reformasi specifically to target Dr Mahathir. It is clearly an institutional reform agenda, culminating into a better system of governance.

“I would ask the PM, please rethink your statements before you come out and condemn the very essence of an agenda that will benefit the rakyat,” Nurul Izzah told a press conference at PKR headquarters in Petaling Jaya today.

Nurul Izzah also said Najib should ‘be a man’ and not destroy the agenda which is crucial to the survival of the country.

She questioned if the prime minister made the statement without thinking of the welfare of the people, which is an outline of the reform agenda.

“Is Najib Razak against the fight to eradicate corruption? Is he against the effort to reduce inequality and improve welfare of Malaysians?

“These are part and parcel of the reform agenda.

“Najib must also do some homework, read some history and then only comment,” she added.

Yesterday, Najib told the crowd during an event in Permatang Pauh to make a U-turn and support BN again.

He said BN could deliver better and make the country greater, and took potshots at Dr Mahathir by highliting his U-turns since he left Umno and joined the opposition.

The constituency is synonymous with PH and PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim, who was jailed for five years on a sodomy conviction in 2015.

The seat has been held by his wife Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, who is PH and PKR president, since his imprisonment. – August 18, 2017.

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  • I am glad that Nurul Izzah has put the record straight, that the Reformasi movement is not about anti-Mahathir or pro-Mahathir as Najib has stupidly put it. For that matter, Najib must understand that Reformasi is not about any individual, Anwar Ibahim included, but about the larger agenda to bring sweeping reforms that will save this country from the ruinous consequences arising from decades of Umno’s misrule.
    As for readers’ constant snipes against PKR’s effort to talk peace with PAS, these readers must realise that such effort cannot be equated with betrayal or compromise of principles, but is mere tactical move to avoid 3-corner fights that would otherwise undermine Pakatan Harapan’s chances of winning in the next election. And unless we win, all talks of change will be reduced to zilch.

    Posted 8 years ago by Kim quek · Reply